Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mihs

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown. Connected by some authors^[1]^[2] to Proto-Indo-European *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to urinate”) (compare also Dutch miggelen (“to drizzle”), Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ- (“to *drizzle?, blink; cloud, mist, fog”) (whence *mihstu)), but at least the semantics are questionable.

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Noun

*mihs n^[3]

(North Sea Germanic) dung
Synonyms: *dungu, *tord

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mihs
Genitive	*mihsas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mihs	*mihsu
Accusative	*mihs	*mihsu
Genitive	*mihsas	*mihsō
Dative	*mihsē	*mihsum
Instrumental	*mihsu	*mihsum

Related terms

Descendants

Old English: meox, miox
- Middle English: mix, mex, myx
>? Old English: mes f (perhaps conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mihstu)
Old Frisian: *miuks, *miux^[4]
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: njoks
  
  Goesharde: mjoks
  
  Halligen: njoks
  
  Helgoland: ni̯oks
  
  Karrharde: mjuks
  
  Mooring: mjuks
  
  Sylt: Mjuks
  
  Wiedingharde: mjoks
- East Frisian:
  Saterland Frisian: Mjuks
  
  Wangerooge Frisian: miux
  
  Wursten Frisian: miuchß
- West Frisian: mjuks, mjoks
  Hindeloopen: moks
  
  Terschelling: mjoks
Old Saxon: mehs

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mihstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369
^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*h₃mei̯g̑ʰ-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 384–385
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “PWGmc *mihs”
^ Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “mjuks”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎^[2], Leiden: Leiden University, page 35.

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mihstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369

[2] Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*h₃mei̯g̑ʰ-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 384–385

[3] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312: “PWGmc *mihs”

[4] Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “mjuks”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎^[2], Leiden: Leiden University, page 35.

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